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		claudeganon on June 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition A couple months ago, Amazon execs were reported to be conspiring to smear a black labor organizer with racist dog whistles. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm8bx/leaked-amazon-memo... Treating their motives with anything but the utmost cynicism seems the rational move here.

solidasparagus on June 10, 2020 [–]

Bottomless cynicism gets us nowhere. It's far from done, but unless there's some evidence that they are still selling Rekognition to the police, this is a positive development in the field of facial recognition.

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